Demographic History of the Genus Pan Inferred from Whole Mitochondrial Genome Reconstructions.

ABSTRACT: The genus Pan is the closest genus to our own and it includes two species, Pan paniscus (bonobos) and Pan troglodytes (chimpanzees). The later is constituted by four subspecies, all highly endangered. The study of the Pan genera has been incessantly complicated by the intricate relationship among subspecies and the statistical limitations imposed by the reduced number of samples or genomic markers analyzed. Here, we present a new method to reconstruct complete mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) from whole genome shotgun (WGS) datasets, mtArchitect, showing that its reconstructions are highly accurate and consistent with long-range PCR mitogenomes. We used this approach to build the mitochondrial genomes of 20 newly sequenced samples which, together with available genomes, allowed us to an

SUBMITTER: Lobon I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4943195 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature